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START ME UP
"Start Me Up" is a song by The Rolling Stones which was featured on the 1981 album Tattoo You.
It was first recorded in Munich during the 1975 Black and Blue sessions. The song was originally recorded as a reggae track but the band abandoned it until 1981 when they re-dubbed a one-off rock version recorded in Paris during the making of Some Girls. The infectious "thump" to the song was achieved using mixer Bob Clearmountain's famed "bathroom reverb", a process involving the recording of some of the song's vocal and drum tracks with a miked speaker in the bathroom of the Power Station recording studio in New York City. It was there where final touches were added to the song, including Mick Jagger's switch of the main lyrics from "start it up" to "start me up."
The song reached No. 7 in the UK Singles Charts in August 1981 (and No. 2 in the US). It remains a significant single as the Stones have not been back into the UK Top 10 since. A cover by Salt-N-Pepa reached the lower position of 39 in October 1992.
The B-Side was an excellent slow blues number called 'No Use In Crying' which also featured on the Tattoo You album.
"Start Me Up" is often used to open the Stones' live shows.
The song was one of three played by the Rolling Stones at half time during the Super Bowl XL in 2006. Along with "Rough Justice" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," Mick Jagger allegedly omitted ostensibly objectionable words from the song. It was later revealed that the volume on Jagger's mic had not been turned down at points, without the singer's prior permission, but instead Jagger had agreed to leave out lines that were found offensive. [1]
Microsoft Corporation used this song in the Windows 95 marketing campaign, although paying significantly less than the $14 million rumored. [2]
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